User:Rajiv p2p

Biography

Rajiv is a third-year PhD student in the Peer-to-Peer and Grids  laboratory at the University of Melbourne, my thesis advisors are Dr. Aaron Harwood and Dr. Rajkumar Buyya. Prior to joining UniMelb, I completed my bachelors’ degree with securing first rank (GPA 3.97/4.0) in the Computer Engineering Department (North Gujarat University, Gujarat, India).

In addition to seemingly perpetual studies, I worked as research assistant (honors project) at Physical Research Laboratory (A Unit of Dept. of Space Govt. of India), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Then I worked as lecturer in computer engineering department (Gujarat University, Gujarat, India) where I lectured undergraduate computer engineering courses including systems software, parallel computation and advance operating system.

Research Interests

1. Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design (DAMD)

2 DHT-based P2P protocol for DAMD

3. Decentralized Superscheduling

4. Decentralized Storage Management

Broadly speaking, I am interested in algorithmic aspects of resource allocation and resource discovery in decentralized Grid and Peer-to-Peer systems – specifically looking into market-based mechanism for regulating application scheduling and resource allocation in completely decentralized setting.

In my first year I developed the dispatcher interface for GridBus Broker to support job management and execution over window cluster environment using Alchemi (a .Net based resource management system). During second year of my candidature, I looked into market –based coordinated resource allocation in a cooperative Grid environment (Grid-Federation) based on scalable Peer-to-Peer network model. To explore this idea, I implemented Grid-Federation simulator based on well-known discreet-event Grid simulator GridSim. My present PhD research explores the possibility of utilizing structured Peer-to-Peer systems such as Chord, CAN to support Internet scale Grid information system. We are looking into various aspects of spatial Grid resource query to support efficient discovery and allocation.

AWARDS

1.     Australian Government International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS).

2.     The University of Melbourne, Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS).

3.     IEEE Student Travel Support to present work at Cluster’05.